Celery is a versatile veg which is perfect for flavouring sauces, stews, soups, risottos or adding a raw crunch to salads. Dice fresh celery with onions, carrots and garlic as the perfect starter for almost any home-cooked meal. For more inspiration, see our wide choice of organic vegetable seeds.
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There are types of Celery grown with different techniques. They are trenching and self-blanching varieties, the trenched celery plants take more time but are incredibly flavoursome, self-blanching celery crop quicker. Suttons offer both varieties with ‘Giant Red’ for trenching and ‘Loretta’ for self-blanching
Sprinkle the celery seeds over a seed tray or pot that has decent peat free seed compost. You don't need to cover the seeds as they need light to germinate.
For self-blanching celery;
Always refer to the packet for spacing – self blanching plants are planted in blocks, closer together to encourage blanching, this means the plant produces multiple and hence more Celery.
For trench celery;
Celery prefers a nice sunny position and will enjoy irrigation, if time is short it worth looking into irrigation aids. A big rule is don't let dry out. Liquid feeds are important, applied little and often. Harvest and eat or cook fresh.
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